Week 10: Final Blog

Date: June 10, 2013
Weather: Clear Skies, Sunny
Temperature: about 70 degrees Fahrenheit
Time of Day: 3-4pm

 Part 1: Briefly describe..

1. (Plant) It's structure is one of that like an umbrella, it has a similar structure that encompasses 3 main parts. The first would be the top of it. It acts like a shelter to many from rain, or on a nice hot day it also acts as a shelter of shade, it extends from the top in many directions forming a somewhat triangular shape but droops at the top. It seems to be home for many and food for many as a fluffy creature clings on to is thick rough, rusty colored skin and climbs its way to one of its extenders that provided food for this creature. It is tall and stands high and strong, with its skin thicker than any skin I have seen, but it is known that if you peel back it's skin and get to its center you can reveal it's history and stories it holds. It's study but how? It is physically connected to the ground and maybe even beneath ground where it gets its nutrients and water that runs through the entire structure. Seems so simple but in many ways complex and more interconnected than you think.

2. (Bird) It's able to roam around in the space or air, able to zip past at high speeds and sometimes faster than your eyes can blink. If bothered it seems to make a signal and makes this obnoxious cawww noise. But it also does this when signaling others alike to come together or conjure up. The darkest of midnight seems to blanket over its body, and seems to fear almost nothing. It can take flight like an airplane at any time it desires and travel distances away, it can also land whenever and wherever. It is tactical in ways of finding food like near by garbage bins.

3. The sun gives Salmonberry life,
the berries are than the sun.



Part 2: Final Reflection

Lincoln Park has always been one of my favorite parks to go to. After observing this site for about 10 weeks it opened my eyes to how much changes throughout a park even over just 10 weeks. I was able to observe salmonberry before it has it's flowers and than when it's flowers actually bloomed! To when the berries started to form, and when the berries have fully ripened. Before observing Lincoln Park I never noticed what plants or animals inhabit this site. I never noticed how much it can change. It's amazing. One day you will hear no bees buzzing, the next you hear some, a couple more days later you can hear a lot of buzzing bees near the salmonberry and all around you, and you finally notice that spring has finally come.

Lincoln Park also gave way to how the Puget Sound Region was formed, and it almost takes my breath away now that I can look and stare at the Puget Sound and not just think "oh this is a pretty view" but be taken away of how it was made, and how it was full of glaciers and ice! And through these events kind of created the habitat on which our everyday plants and animals live on. At first, my perception of the Puget Sound was that it rains a lot, and it might not be the most desirable place for someone, but now I understand the precipitation rates here, and that it is an amazing place to live and be around nature. Now whenever I look at mountains or any formation of land I ask myself how was the made how did that form?

What does it mean to be intimately know a natural place? I think this means that in order to intimately know a natural place is to know its structure, its body, its make up, not only what it feeds on but what does it do for others. It means to know how it is apart of a greater ecosystem. To know a natural place intimately is to know how it became the way it is, or know somewhat emotionally feel how it feels to bask in the sun or take up all the rain water. To know the stages it takes throughout a season and why it takes those stages. To intimately know a natural place is to actually explore and get comfortable with the plants and animals around you. To not be limited on time, but to be lost in time while trying to observe and record and examine every part of a plant, a animal, a behavior, a certain part of land.